I, Sniper
Written by Stephen Hunter
Narrated by Buck Schirner
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Four famed ’60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose ninety-three kills were considered the leading body count tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter. But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. In closing out the investigation, Nick discovers a case made in heaven: everything fits, from timeline, ballistics, and forensics to motive, means, and opportunity. Maybe it’s a little too perfect.
Nick asks his friend, the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to examine the data. Using a skill set no other man on earth possesses, Swagger soon discovers unseen anomalies and gradually begins to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy—one that would require the highest level of warcraft by the most superb special operations professionals.Swagger soon closes in, and those responsible will stop at nothing to take him out. But these heavily armed men make the mistake of thinking they are hunting Bob, when he is, in fact, hunting them. And when Swagger and the last of his antagonists finally face each other, reenacting a classic ritual of arms, it is clear that at times there’s nothing more necessary than a good man with a gun and the guts to use it.
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter has written over twenty novels. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Starts off with a bang but by mid-book becomes a slog. Gun fetishism. Most good scenes are the DC send up of lobbyists and influence peddlers and FBI internal politics.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The accents made it really enjoyable... the usage of real snipers is a plus and as always the clever plot!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Better than the previous two, fun story, still has some significant holes. And the whole Bob Lee can predict the future well enough to survive crazy odds just from reading people and the terrain is getting a little old. He should be dead several dozen times over by now.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5book was interesting , it was a retelling of the jack the ripper tale ending with his theory on who was the ripper
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I had ALWAYS looked forward to Mr. Hunter's novels. However this will be the last one that I purchase. I was completely fascinated with his absorbing stories and not in the blatant diatribes concerning his personal politics, that filled this book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I, Sniper is intended as entertainment -- a thriller for those whose taste runs to gunfights and shadowy conspiracies -- and on that basic level, it succeeds. It drew me into the story, it entertained me, and I never felt the urge to put it aside and pick up something else instead.But it's sloppy . . . Lord, is it sloppy. The pacing is frequently uneven, the book as a whole is overlong, and the half-dozen characters based on real people are such transparent stand-ins (and yet so cartoonish) that they destroy any sense of the story happening in the real world. Bob Lee Swagger has been promoted from man to demigod, and every four or five chapters Hunter has one of the other characters deliver a speech about his awesomeness. A long subplot about a New York Times reporter seems to exist solely to demonstrate the media's cluelessness and bias, yet it winds up making the Times seem more sinned against than sinning.Your mileage may vary, of course, and if your worldview is closer to Hunter's than mine is, it may vary a lot, but I was left with a feeling that -- to quote someone wittier than I -- the author's "sold his birthright for a pot of message."
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Four people with ties to the '60s radical movement are assassinated by a long range sniper. Carefully crafted evidence points to former Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock. He is eventually accused of the crime by the FBI but commits suicide before capture.Special Agent Nick Mempphis feels that the evidence is a bit too perfect and asks his old friend, Bob Lee Swagger, to look into it.Swagger, a retired Marine sniper, finds discrepancies and goes to a meeting with Nick and other officials and demonstrates why he feels the Hitchcock was set- up. Swagger suggests that to find the real killer and unravel the set-up another sniper should be used and he volunteers.Swagger is on the trail to clear Hitchcock but as he searches and the FBI doesn't close the case, political pressure mounts and suddenly Nick Memphis is in the hot seat.Stephen Hunter has given the reader an action packed story. He provides abundant detail about weapons and this helps the reader feel the plot is realistic.Swagger is a fun character and reading about another of his adventures is like finding an old John Wayne movie and seeing it for the first time.Very enjoyable.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Satisfying, esp. after the last two. This is now my 2nd favourite in the Bob Lee saga after #1 "Point of Impact"Stephen Hunter returns to ex-USMC sniper Bob Lee Swagger again in "I, Sniper", but this time in a way that is completely satisfying to this long time fan.Although I've been a faithful Stephen Hunter reader of every single book since "Point of Impact" I have to admit to feeling some disappointment in the last 2 books of the Bob Lee series which both veered off into what at times seemed like ridiculous scenarios for the old sniper Swagger to be found in (esp. since he is now in his early '60s, but kudos to Hunter as well for letting his character age in real time), such as samurai swords in Japan in "The 47th Samurai" and NASCAR races in "Nights of Thunder". I'm happy for Stephen Hunter to set himself challenges of writing about new situations for his characters and I'll support him forever, but that doesn't mean I'll be completely satisfied with each of those books.But in "I, Sniper", Hunter returns his main protagonist to a situation he knows best of all, men (and women) with honour, who work to defend their own and those near and dear to them and (of course) the rifles & scopes that are built for long-distance shooting.I'm not going to spoil a single thing about this book except to say that it does have minor spoilers of all of the previous Bob Lee Swagger books, so if you have yet to discover this series, you had best start with #1 "Point of Impact" then read "Dirty White Boys" as a side-bar because you need it for background to #2 "Black Light", and then #3 "Time to Hunt", use your own preferences/judgement about #4 & #5 (see above), but definitely do not miss this new one #6 "I, Sniper". Long time fans should be completely satisfied with this return to form. Stephen Hunter is still the poet of the long-range gun and the master painter in words of the shoot-out or other violent confrontation.